This post has nothing to do with weight management, Mediterranean diet, or fitness. If that’s why you dropped by, merrily move along. You won’t hurt my feelings. Or better yet, check out the topics in the right-side column.
Over at Unz.com, Bernard M. Smith has reviewed a book, The Past is a Future Country: The Coming Conservative Demographic Revolution, by Edward Dutton & J.O.A. Rayner-Hilles. If you have above average intelligence and are dismayed at the Western cultural degradation of the last 60 years, you may enjoy this review (and book) and it may cheer you up. The central thesis of the book seems to be that:
…..religious and traditionally conservative people outbreed irreligious and liberal people. Similarly, the very stupid and impulsive likewise outbreed irreligious and liberal people. Eventually there must be a political and social reckoning for these facts. This is a book that does what it can to tease all that it can from that reality while filling in the details of why societies and civilizations move as they do.
From the book directly:
There will be a ‘Great Escape’, whereby intelligent, conservative people flee apocalyptic chaos to establish refuges of civilization in which they weather the storm of the Dark Age. Those exiled will be conservative, middle class, and white (defined very broadly), set against ‘post-liberal’ areas of mixed ethnic minorities, with some white admixture. Today, the Woke will continue to induce guilt in the white or otherwise ‘privileged’ middle-class population, but tomorrow the underclass will be the frightening majority of the Western population, and too vast in size, and offensive in character, to sustain further sympathy. Lower IQ whites, reluctant or unable to move due to the associations between low IQ and conservatism and between high IQ and migration, will simply merge into the majority non-white populations; dissolving away into extinction like the Neanderthals.
Back to Mr. Bernard:
It is strange to think of religiosity as a positive evolutionary trait but that is the argument. In fact, upon reflection, it makes perfect sense. The West became great because it was all of these — it was composed of pious, virtuous, and intelligent people who were tribally conscious. Without thinking of it in Darwinian terms, they were people who venerated the past (their ancestors) and made provision for the future (their children) — and the only people they did not think of were themselves. Today, it is all inverted: our age mocks the past, makes no provision for the future (because they have no children), and thinks only of themselves (as the narcissistic people that they are). In a few words, we are irreverent presentists.
Perhaps you’ve heard of the “spiteful mutants” theory of societal deterioration. Professor Dutton came up with that.
This is just here for my possible future reference. I’m tempted to get the book.
Steve Parker, M.D.
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